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A. KOMP.

NBG'K WEAR SHIELD AND PASTE-NEE. No; 258,769. Patented May 30, 1882.

WITNESSES: INVBNTOR 4 MM mm mm 7 I BY ATTORNEY UNiTED STATES PATENTOFFICE;

ALBERT KOMP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKWEAR 'SHIELD AND FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,769, dated May 30,1882. Application filed April 6, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT KOMP, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Pins for Neckwear-Shields, ofwhich thefollowing is a specification.

This invention consists of a necktie-fastening in the form of a pin orneedle, at the blunt end of which a loop is formed, said loop beingpassed through an elongated slot in the necktie-shield and secured by akey or wedge passing through the-aforesaid loop, thereby securelyattaching the pin to the shield.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a rear view of a portion of a scarf, showing the applicationof my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of the shield with myinvention. Fig. 3 is a section of the same on the line was, Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a view of the shield without the fastening. Fig. 5 is amodification ot' the shape of the pin.

Similar letters indicate corresponding arts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates a scarf, to which is attachedin the usual way the shield B.

O is the band of the scarf, secured to the same at a, and, after passingaround the neck of the wearer, it is fastened in the usual manner by thepin 1). This pin 1), at or near its blunt end, has a loop, 0, formed onit, Figs. 3 and 4, of such size and shape that when the said loop ispassed through the elongated slot at in the shield B the same forms aneye, into which the wedge or key 0 maybe inserted, and after the same ispushed in as faras it will go itsecurely fastens the pin to the shield.The slot 61 in the shield tapers to nearlyapoint at each end, Fig. 4, sothat when the wedge or key 0 is pushed in it draws the loop of the pininto these pointed ends of the slot, thereby holding the pin rigid andpreventing it from moving in any direction. In the first three figuresot'the accompanying drawings the loopc is formed on an ordinary pin witha head; but any pointed piece of wire may be used by bending the same,as shown in the drawings in Fig. 5.

If desired, the keyc may be provided with notches, as shown in Fig. 6,for its retention in the loop 0 of the pin.

Heretofore a pin has been attached to anecktie-shield by inserting theend of the pin through holes in the shield andthen clamping the bluntend ot'the pin onto thelatter; butsueh does not constitute my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'The combination of the shield having an elongated slot, d, the pinhaving a loop, 0, arranged in and projecting through said slot,

and the key or wedge e, inserted into the projecting part of theloopagainst the shield, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presenceoftwo subscribing witnesses.

A. KOMP. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, CHAS. WAHLEas.

